[An Nahar] A Taliban jacket wallah killed three civilians in southern Afghanistan on Saturday when he detonated explosives in a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to target foreign forces fighting the Islamist hard boys, officials said.
The attacker prematurely triggered a bomb packed inside his vehicle before he got close to an international military convoy on patrol in the Daman district of Kandahar province.
"A suicide bomber driving a Toyota sedan detonated his vehicle in Daman on the road from Kandahar city to Spin Boldak (on the border with Pakistain)," Javed Faisal, the Kandahar governor's front man, told AFP.
"The target of the suicide bomber was foreign forces, but it went kaboom! prematurely. Three non-combatants were killed -- two children and a woman. Seven men were maimed."
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid grabbed credit for the attack, which occurred three or four kilometers (two or three miles) from Kandahar airport, a major base for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Mujahid claimed 15 U.S. soldiers were killed, but the gunnies routinely exaggerate corpse counts.
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[An Nahar] Egypt's interior ministry on Saturday issued a new warning to Islamist protesters, pledging to crack down if demonstrators block roads or obstruct traffic.
The ministry statement came a day after thousands of protesters rallied in Cairo against the military's July 3 overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
It accused the protesters of committing "many crimes" such as blocking traffic and "kidnapping journalists and confiscating their equipment".
"The ministry affirms that it will confront with utmost decisiveness practices such as blocking roads or obstructing traffic or threatening the security of citizens," the statement said.
Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 2,000 incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in a police crackdown on Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement since August 14, when police forcibly dispersed two protest camps.
The Islamists have continued to call weekly rallies, insisting that they are committed to peaceful protest.
About 200 supporters of Morsi held a "symbolic" march Saturday in Cairo to mark a deadly crackdown by security forces on backers of the ousted Islamist president a month ago.
Men, women and kiddies chanting "Rabaa, Rabaa!" marched peacefully in the Nasr City district near Rabaa al-Adawiya Square--the site of one of two pro-Morsi protest camps targeted by security forces in the August 14 crackdown.
"We are holding a symbolic march to show that one month after the Rabaa massacre we have not given up our agitation. It will continue," protester Ahmed Shamseldin, a doctor, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Protesters tried to march to the square but dispersed before reaching it.
"We don't want to clash with the army, so we did not walk up to Rabaa," Shamseldin said, adding that the march garnered few protesters after "they came in large numbers on Friday".
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[Guardian Ng] THE Nigerian Army Thursday said 10 members of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... sect group were killed during an air strike on two of their camps in parts of Borno State.
The military also said two camps of the terrorist group in Mada, within Konduga Local Council, were destroyed while one soldier was maimed in the onslaught.
Spokesman of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, in a press statement said: "Following air strike and subsequent destruction of two Boko Haram terrorist camps at Mada, Konduga Local Council of Borno State, some troops of 231 Battalion of 7 Division on their way to Biu had an encounter with fleeing Boko Haram gunnies on Maiduguri/Damboa Road at about 10.00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 10, 2013."
Musa said that 10 gunnies bit the dust and some ammunition, including 4 AK47 rifles, 5AK 47 magazines and 250 rounds of assorted ammunition were also recovered.
He equally disclosed that 10 cycle of violences belonging to the sect members were also destroyed in the air and land raids.
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[ALLAFRICA] Maiduguri -- Following the dislodgment of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist's camps in some parts of Borno state by military troops which had forced many of the Death Eaters to scavenge for food from villagers, the Death Eaters have resorted to robbing innocent civilians thereby killing three passengers after collecting unspecified amount of cash and food items from their victims along Bama- Banki road.
This is even as intelligence information available to the newly established Headquarters of 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri indicated that the Death Eaters have written threat letters to Dikwa Market/traders demanding N1 million to enable them purchase food items and other logistical requirement or be ready to face deadly attacks.
These were contained in a press statement emailed to Journalists yesterday by the Acting Spokesman of the 7 Div, Nigerian Army, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa in Maiduguri, the state capital.
Sagir in the statement said, " at about 1135 hours on 13th September, 2013, some troops of Banki Forward Operating Base (BFOB) on a mission of 202 Battalion Bama, on their way back to Banki, a boarder town with Cameroun Republic encountered some Boko Haram Death Eaters along Bama-Banki road carrying out armed robbery activities on innocent traders and travelers. The Death Eaters had killed 3 passengers and collected unspecified amount of cash and food items during the robbery incident.
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[An Nahar] The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in an Internet posting has confirmed the death of senior AQAP member Qaeed al-Dhahab in a U.S. drone strike late last month.
The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said AQAP, in a communique issued on jihadi forums on Friday, said Dhahab was killed in the U.S. "war on Islamic sharia" (law).
It was the latest in a string of attacks targeting what Washington considers to be the Death Eater group's most dangerous branch.
A tribal source told Agence La Belle France Presse the August 30 early morning strike on a vehicle in Manasseh village in the southern province of Bayda killed Dhahab and two other men.
Witnesses confirmed the death of Dhahab, an AQAP military chief who had previously fought with the group in Iraq.
The tribal source said he was killed just hours after being married on Thursday.
He was the brother of Tarek al-Dhahab, an AQAP leader who in January 2012 with other gunnies briefly overran the town of Radah in Bayda province before being killed by Yemeni troops.
Seen as a high-profile AQAP leader, Qaeed al-Dhahab was also the brother-in-law of Yemeni-born American radical Islamic holy man Anwar al-Awlaqi, a key AQAP figure who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in September 2011.
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The tribal source said he was killed just hours after being married on Thursday.
hope his 6 yr old bride wasn't hurt
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Tribesmen bombed Yemens main oil pipeline in the central Maarib province on Saturday, a government official said, the fourth attack on the pipeline in a month. The attack, which stopped oil flows from the Maarib fields to the Ras Isa oil terminal on the Red Sea, caused a fire and damage to the pipeline about 40km from where it starts in Maarib, the official said. No casualties were reported.
The pipeline was set on fire earlier this month after threats by a Yemeni tribe following a siege on its leaders house by security forces.
Tribesmen often carry out such attacks to put pressure on the government to meet demands including jobs, land disputes or freeing relatives from prison. Yemen, which relies on crude exports to finance up to 70 per cent of budget spending, has suffered frequent bombings of its main pipeline since an anti-government uprising broke out in 2011.
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[Dawn] At least eight containers and oil tankers carrying supplies for US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in Afghanistan were set ablaze when gunnies fired rockets on the convoy in Surab area of Kalat district, about 200 kilometres south of here, on Friday.
The convoy of containers and oil tankers carrying goods and fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan was going to the border town of Chaman from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... when it came under attack in Surab area of Kalat where the drivers had parked their vehicles at a roadside restaurant on the National Highway.
A senior police official said that the assailants fired rockets on the convoy and the containers and tankers caught fire and were gutted.
"It was a pre-dawn attack carried out by around a dozen gunnies in Hajika ara of Surab," said Yousuf Reiki.
He said that one driver was killed in the attack. He was identified as Samiullah, but other drivers and helpers were unhurt. The attackers managed to escape.
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[Dawn] Police and Rangers personnel apprehended 24 suspects, including two members of a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization, during the ongoing targeted operations conducted in the city whereas a DSP of Sindh police was bumped off by unknown persons in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Malir area on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
DSP Mumtaz Shah, who was posted at Landhi jail in Karachi, was targeted by unknown gunnies in Model Colony near Malir Cant on Saturday when he left his residence to reach his workplace for duty.
The body of the victim was shifted to Civil hospital Karachi.
Provincial MInister for Prisons Manzoor Ahmed Wasan took notice of the killing and sought a report over the incident within 48 hours.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... Rangers personnel conducted raids in Karachi's Pakhtunabad, Eesa Nagri's MIkasa apartments, Lassi Goth and Lasbela Goth areas of Karachi arresting 22 suspects and recovering arms and ammunition.
Two suspects belonging to a proscribed organization were also apprehended from Gulshan-e-Zia area in Karachi's Orangi town area.
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[Dawn] A bomb kaboom Saturday killed two members of a pro-government aman lashkar (militia) and maimed four others during an archaeological dig in the tribal Bajaur region close to the Afghanistan border, officials said.
The incident took place in the mountainous area of Darra in Salarzai tehsil, 30 kilometres northeast of Khar, the main town of Bajaur agency.
"About a dozen members of the local peace committee were digging at an excavation site when a remote controlled bomb went off, killing two members and wounding four others," senior local administration official Sardar Yousuf said.
The men belonged to the Salarzai peace committee, a local tribal militia supported by the government to fight Taliban and anti-state myrmidons.
The group was digging in the area to look for antiquities.
Another local administration official Asad Sarwar also confirmed the incident and casualties.
The injured were shifted to agency headquarters hospital in Khar.
No myrmidon group has yet claimed the credit for the kaboom.
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[Dawn] Eight employees of the Gomal Zam Dam project were released Saturday, almost a year after they were kidnapped by Pak Talibs in South Wazoo tribal region.
A front man for the Governor house in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. confirmed all eight workers had been released.
The project workers -- Sub-Divisional Officer Shahid Ali Khan, Sub-Engineer Sanaullah, four security personnel and two other staffers -- were kidnapped on August 15, 2012 while they were travelling to Tank from the dam site in South Waziristan.
A month after their kidnapping, a faction of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) released a video of the kidnapped employees pleading to the government to fulfill the bully boys' demands and arrange for their safe release.
The release took place in South Waziristan region on Saturday after successful negotiations between a tribal jirga (council) and the bully boys.
A Taliban front man said the eight men were released as a "goodwill gesture" from the bully boys.
The incident comes two days after the government inaugurated the dam in South Waziristan's militancy-ravaged Khajori Katch area on Thursday.
On Monday, the military and intelligence chiefs and all major political parties huddled together in Islamabad at an All Parties Conference (APC) and resolved to initiate dialogue with bad boy Talibs battling the state.
A TTP front man welcomed the offer of peace talks, and there were unconfirmed reports of a Taliban shura (high council) meeting to deliberate over the offer.
Later this week, security forces and Pak Talibs were reported to have exchanged prisoners as a confidence building measure ahead of possible peace talks. The exchange -- of six TTP forces of Evil and two paramilitary Frontier Corps soldiers -- was said to have taken place in Shawal area of South Waziristan agency.
The military, however, denied any such exchange had taken place.
It was unclear if the release of the Gomal Zam dam workers on Saturday was related in any way to the outcome of the APC earlier this week.
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[Dawn] As peace talks between the government and Pak Taliban move forward following the All Parties Conference, the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa government has in principle approved the gradual withdrawal of army from Malakand division.
In the initial stage, security forces will be withdrawn from Buner and Shangla districts in October.
An official communiqué issued from the CM House stated that KP Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak announced the withdrawal of army from Malakand division in Nowshera.
Khattak said that withdrawal of army from these two districts would be followed by a phase-wise withdrawal from Upper Dir, Lower Dir and Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... where 'the writ of the government has been consolidated'.
Khattak said that the army was deployed in the Malakand division due to increasing activities of the Taliban in 2007.
The security forces had offered innumerable sacrifices to clear the area and restore peace and now 'hundreds of displaced people are back'.
The chief minister said that the KP government wanted to resolve all issues through talks and it has been successful in maintaining the writ of the government.
The announcement of troops' withdrawal has been viewed by many as a critical decision at a time when there is a likely truce between the outlawed Pak Taliban groups and the government.
The residents of Malakand have expressed their reservations time and again about the bad boys' threat from across the border where the Fazlullah-led Taliban have safe heavens in Nuristan and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s and launch attacks in Upper Dir, Lower Dir and in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... as well.
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Security forces killed 14 Maoists in a fire-fight in eastern India on Saturday, police said, marking the latest bloodshed in a long conflict in which the rebels have been battling to overthrow the government.
It was the single biggest rebel death toll in Orissa state from one incident and came amid an intense anti-Maoist campaign in the area conducted over the past month, police said.
Fourteen rebels, including one woman cadre, were killed. We are awaiting further information, Orissa state police director general Prakash Mishra told AFP.
There were no immediate reports of casualties among security forces, Mishra added.
The Maoists have grown from a rag-tag band of ideologues into a potent insurgent force, creating a so-called Red Corridor that stretches throughout central and eastern India.
Saturdays battle occurred in the Padia forest area of mineral-rich but impoverished Orissa state some 650 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of state capital Bhubaneswar. The security forces, acting on a tip-off, were conducting a sweep of the area for rebels when they came across the Maoist camp, police said, adding authorities now were looking for more insurgents in the area.
The area where the battle took place was close to rebel-hit Chhattisgarh state. Police said a cache of explosives, arms and ammunition and Maoist literature was seized from the camp site.
Local media reported the rebel group camping in the forest was suspected of involvement in a May 25 ambush by Maoists of a convoy of Congress leaders in neighbouring Chhattisgarh state. That attack in a remote tribal belt killed some 24 people, including 12 local Congress leaders and supporters.
The Maoists are believed to be present in at least 20 states but are most active in Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra, occupying thousands of square kilometers (miles) of land.
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A suicide bomber attacked a funeral on Saturday in northern Iraq attended by members of an ethnic minority, part of a series of assaults that killed at least 25 across the country, officials said.
In the suicide attack, the bomber detonated his explosive belt inside a tent during the afternoon ceremony held by members of the Shabak minority near the city of Mosul, 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad. Authorities said the blast in the village of Arto Kharab killed at least 20 people and wounded 35. The funeral was for a member of the Shabak minority who had died of natural causes, officials said.
The Shabaks are ethnic Turkomen and Shias. Most of them live in villages east of Mosul, the provincial capital of the ethnically mixed Ninevah province that is predominantly Sunni Muslim.
There was no immediate claim for the funeral attack, but Mosul has been a hub for Al Qaeda in Iraq in past years. Militants have used violence and intimidation to drive hundreds of members of minority groups out of the city. Al Qaedas local branch, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has claimed responsibility for a number of large-scale bombings in recent months and is believed to be behind other coordinated attacks.
In other violence on Saturday, police said a roadside bomb hit a car in Dujail town, just north of the capital, killing the driver and his wife. Police also said an 11-year-old boy was killed when a bomb struck a minibus near Suleiman Beg town, about 150km northeast of Baghdad.
Gunmen also stormed a tile factory in eastern Baghdad, killing the factory owner and a worker, police said.
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Two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded by a bomb explosion on a road in Khok Pho district of Pattani province yesterday. The blast occurred about 11:30 a.m. as six soldiers from Pattani Task Force 21 were traveling in a pickup truck along a road in tambon Kuan Nori.
Police were inspecting the scene. They blamed separatist terrorists militants.
Fighting intensified on Saturday in the southern Philippines between government troops and separatists, shattering a ceasefire almost immediately as it was to go into effect and leaving many residents running low on supplies. The army said 53 people had been killed in the fighting, now in its sixth day in the port city of Zamboanga, known as the city of flowers.
Dozens have been wounded and more than 60,000 people displaced, with hundreds of homes razed and a hospital still in flames. Rebels have fired on government positions and seized civilians to use as human shields.
The violence underscores the security challenge potential investors face in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country despite a strong second quarter economic performance. It also called into question a peace deal agreed last October with a larger Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
So the MILFs kept fighting despite signing a truce? How typical...
Late on Friday, Vice-President Jejomar Binay told Reuters he had spoken by telephone to Nur Misuari, leader of a rogue faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and they agreed to a ceasefire and talks to resolve the latest conflict. Binay announced plans to visit Zamboanga on Mindanao, the Phillipines southernmost island and theatre of more than four decades of violence.
Heavy fighting broke out after midnight in a coastal village as soldiers retook rebel positions, killing four guerrillas.
And that's how you enforce a truce...
Sporadic fighting struck three districts of Zamboanga through the morning and early afternoon. Skirmishes were also reported for the third day on the nearby island of Basilan, with the army saying one of its soldiers had been killed.
Abigail Valte, a presidential spokeswoman, told reporters in Manila, 850km to the north, that the ceasefire was never implemented. She accused the rebels of launching attacks through the night.
In a radio interview, Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said the vice-president had told him that a ceasefire deal had been clinched, but it had never gone into effect.
We will only stop firing at them when they stop firing at our troops and the civilians, he said.
Displaced city residents have been given temporary shelter. But government social workers said some residents trapped in two schools were running out of food as heavy fighting had pinned down relief workers delivering supplies. Banks, shops, offices and some petrol stations remained closed.
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[REUTERS] Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has told the Islamist Death Eaters who are some of Syria's toughest opposition forces to avoid alliances with other rebel fighters backed by Gulf Arab states and the West.
His comment reflects a deepening rift between groups of the Western- and Arab-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and guerrillas sympathetic to Zawahri's ultra hardline network, which seeks to wage a transnational armed campaign against the West.
Division among rebel fighters, as well as the influence of hardline Islamists, is one reason Western powers have hesitated to intervene in Syria's two-and-a-half-year-old conflict, in which more than 100,000 people have been killed.
In an audio speech released a day after the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 strikes, Zawahri said the United States would try to push opposition fighters to link up with "secular parties that are allied to the West", the SITE monitoring service said.
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Definitely needs confirmation, but how ironic. Just returning the favor...
Syria has moved 20 trucks worth of equipment and material used for the manufacturing of chemical weapons into neighboring Iraq, the Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal reported on Sunday. The government in Baghdad has denied allegations that it is helping the Syrian government conceal chemical stockpiles.
"Lies! All lies!"
The report came just a day after the United States and Russia struck a deal stipulating that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would destroy its chemical arsenal to avert an American military assault.
The newspaper reported that the trucks crossed the boundary separating Syria with Iraq over the course of Thursday and Friday. Border guards did not inspect the contents of the trucks, which raises suspicions that they contained illicit cargo, according to Al-Mustaqbal.
Al-Mustaqbal, a publication that has long been affiliated with anti-Syrian political elements in Lebanon, quoted a spokesperson for Iraq's interior ministry, Saad Maan, as saying that security forces were deployed along the border and were checking all vehicles coming into the country.
"Iraq today is not Saddam Hussein's Iraq," he said. "It is not an Iraq which resorts to the use of chemical weapons against its own people or against its neighbors."
"These accusations are all rumors and are useless and no one believes them," he said.
Last week, the head of the Free Syrian Army told CNN that opposition intelligence indicated Assad was moving chemical arms out of the country.
"Today, we have information that the regime began to move chemical materials and chemical weapons to Lebanon and to Iraq," General Salim Idriss told CNN.
"We have told our friends that the regime has begun moving a part of its chemical weapons arsenal to Lebanon and Iraq. We told them do not be fooled," Idris told reporters in Istanbul. "All of this initiative does not interest us. Russia is a partner with the regime in killing the Syrian people. A crime against humanity has been committed and there is not any mention of accountability."
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[An Nahar] Three rockets launched from across the border with Syria hit the Bekaa valley Saturday, a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The Army Command confirmed the news in a released communique: "Three Syrian 107 mm Grad Rockets hit Baalbek District without causing any injuries."
"A military expert has inspected the scene and the necessary security measures were adopted in the area," it added.
The AFP said the rockets hit an area that lies between the villages of Labweh and Jabbureh, 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the city of Baalbek.
"There were no casualties, but some trees in the area went up in flames," the security source told AFP.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the state-run National News Agency had said two people were maimed when rockets landed on the Bekaa's al-Labweh plains on Saturday.
"Two people, Ali Hasan al-Mawla and a second whose family name is Khazaal, were maimed in the attack," it said, remarking that a rocket fell on an orchard that belongs to the Khazaal family while another landed in the outstrips of al-Labweh.
The third rocket landed on a road in Zboud, according to the same source.
"A huge fire erupted as a result in plains near Deir Jabbureh."
Saturday's is the latest in a string of cross-border rocket attacks that have escalated as Hizbullah's involvement in Syria's brutal conflict has increased.
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"There were no casualties, but some trees in the area went up in flames," the security source told AFP.
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Well down near Damascus, way back in the hills
Me and my old pappy had a hand in a still
We were rulin' and oppressin' 'til the sun went down
Then he'd load up a shell and he'd fire it around
Must be the Springtime season, sure is lots of sneezin'
Whshhhoooh... Alawite lightnin'
Chorus:
Well the "J" men, "O" men, 'Nited Nations, too
Searchin for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin' to book him,
But my pappy kept a-cookin'
Whshhhoooh... Alawite lightnin'
I asked my ol' pappy why he wrote on a shell
"Alawite lightnin'" 'stead of "Death to Israel"
He tossed it in the air and when it came back down
It wrecked about a half a little Shiite town
Lightnin' started flashin' and thunder started crashin'
Shhhoooh... Alawite lightnin'
Chorus:
Well the "J" men, "O" men, 'Nited Nations, too
Searchin for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin' to book him,
But my pappy kept on cookin'
Whshhhoooh... Alawite lightnin'
A jug-eared city slicker with a little bitty prick
Came and tried to snow us with his Realpolitick
He gave his best shot but he missed and spun around
I heard him moaning as his polls hit the ground
It's all about survival, and we are genocidal
Whshhhoooh... Alawite lightnin'
Chorus:
Well the "J" men, "O" men, 'Nited Nations, too
Searchin for the place where he hid his brew
Teeth were gnashin', tryin' to catch him,
But my pappy's son is stashin'
Ululululululu ... Alawite lightnin'
[An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered on Saturday the detainment of three new people over their alleged involvement in the launching of rockets towards Baabda on August 1.
"Saqr order the arrest of three Syrian suspects over the Baabda rocket launching case," the state-run National News Agency reported.
The NNA added that the suspects were referred to Military Examining Magistrate Fadi Sawwan for prosecution.
On Thursday, Sawwan issued an arrest warrant against Jamal Ismail over his alleged involvement in the firing of rockets towards Baabda.
And on August 30, Saqr ordered the detention of suspects allegedly involved in the cases of firing rockets from Ballouneh on Baabda and from the South towards Israel.
Media reports had said that the suspected intended to target the Defense Ministry in Yarze. But one rocket hit a high-voltage power line in a nearby town and a second rocket failed to launch. The launchpads were found in Ballouneh.
On August 1, two rockets fired from an area near the town of Aramoun in Aley struck locations near the presidential palace and the Defense Ministry in Baabda.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... the NNA also revealed that Saqr tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Saturday a supporter of Salafist holy manAhmed al-Asir ...Leb Salafist holy man with the usual grouch against Shiites. Currently on the run, he seems intent on reigniting the Leb civil war... over his alleged involvement in the fighting against the army in the southern town of Abra in June.
The detainee was referred to First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida for further investigation, the same source added.
On June 23, Asir's supporters opened fire on an army checkpoint leaving around 18 soldiers and more than 20 gunnies dead.
The gunbattles concentrated in the area of Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque and nearby buildings in Abra in the southern city of Sidon.
Since then, many Asir supporters men were tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for their alleged involvement in the armed festivities.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Asir, a 45-year-old holy man who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , is no where to be found.
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[An Nahar] The United States and Russia on Saturday unveiled an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year and left the door open to sanctions if Damascus failed to comply.
The landmark deal was hailed by the West, but rejected by rebels who warn that it would not halt the bloodshed in the conflict which has killed more than 110,000 people and displaced millions in two and a half years.
Under the accord struck in three days of talks in Geneva between U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... now has a week to hand over details of his regime's stockpile.
"We have reached a shared assessment of the amount and type of chemical weapons possessed by the Assad regime. And we are committed to the rapid assumption of control by the international community of those weapons," Kerry told news hounds at a joint presser with Lavrov, after wrapping up three days of negotiations in Geneva.
Kerry said that the accord called for the "expeditious destruction and verification" of Syria's chemical arsenal, and required Damascus to allow "immediate, unfettered access" to weapons sites.
Syria must submit an inventory of its chemical weapons within a week, and inspectors must be on the ground in Syria by November, with the goal of eliminating the arms by mid-2014, Kerry said.
"One of the reasons we believe this is achievable is because the Assad regime has taken extraordinary means to keep control of these weapons," he added, noting that the chemical weapons were mainly in regions under Damascus' control.
"So that's the silver lining," he said.
"We should not have a problem achieving access to these sites and that will soon be put to the test," he added.
Washington and Moscow also agreed that a United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... resolution on Syria should have the threat of force in the event of non-compliance, Kerry underlined.
"Providing this framework is fully implemented it can end the threat these weapons pose not only to the Syrian people but also their neighbors... Because of the threat of proliferation this framework can provide greater protection and security to the world," he said.
"The world will now expect the Assad regime to live up to its commitments... There can be no room for games. Or anything less than full compliance by the Assad regime," he added.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Lavrov said at the presser that the U.N. Security Council would act if Syria breached the international convention banning chemical weapons under a deal reached with the United States to eliminate its arms stockpile.
"In the case of those demands not being fulfilled, or in the case of anyone using chemical weapons, the Security Council will take measures according to Chapter Seven of the United Nations charter," Lavrov said.
He referred to the section of the charter that provides for enforcement through sanctions, including the possible use of military force, saying that the Security Council expects Syria to comply fully with the demands of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Nevertheless, he cautioned that the Security Council would not accept reports of chemical weapons violations automatically but that they would be investigated.
"Of course it does not mean that each violation reported to the Security Council will be taken on trust. Each will be investigated. We will try to ensure authenticity," he said.
Lavrov said that the three days of talks with Kerry had achieved an aim set out by Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and U.S. President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... when they met on the sidelines of the latest G20 summit in Saint Petersburg.
"We have achieved the aim set in a conversation between our presidents on September 5 on the sidelines of the G20... about putting under international control Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons," Lavrov said.
The two sides "confirmed their adherence to a peaceful resolution," Lavrov said, adding that the agreement had been reached "in record time."
Lavrov praised the agreement between the U.S. and Russia as a "consensus, a compromise and professional".
He stressed that the framework agreed by Russia and the United States was only a proposal but said "its significance is hard to overestimate."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a U.S. official announced on Saturday that Washington believes there are 45 sites in Syria linked to the country's chemical weapons program.
"There are probably 45 sites associated with Syria's chemical weapons program" and "roughly half have exploitable quantities of chemical weapons materials," the official told news hounds shortly after Kerry and Lavrov announced their accord.
The official added that it is believed that all of the sites are currently under the control of the embattled regime of Assad, given that Damascus has been moving stocks into areas it runs.
Russia has also agreed with a U.S. assessment that Syria has 1,000 metric tonnes of chemical weapons agents and precursors, including blister agents such as mustard gas and sulfur, and nerve agents like sarin.
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The United States and Russia on Saturday unveiled an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year and left the door open to sanctions if Damascus failed to comply.
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For some reason I am reminded of the old saw: "The lambs can pass all the resolutions in favor of vegetarianism they want, but it the wolves don't agree, it won't matter."
Russia and the US can agree on anything they want, but if Syria and the rebels don't cooperate, nothing will happen. Yes, Russia can cut Syria off from aid, which will pretty much doom Assad, but I don't see that happening.
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I am hoping that the deal goes ahead and shortly afterwards the reporters report that the Syrians have done another chemical attack.
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I was in Canada yesterday talking with some spectators at our race and one was of the opinion that the opportunity for Bambi to smack Syria was gone, and what a missed opportunity that was. When I replied that I was glad and that I had no use for that piece of FOD in the WH he got awful quiet. we turned the discussion back to racing....
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Unless I've missed something, a pre-prepared US-Russian "joint assessment" of the Syrian Crisis + Assad's CWS arsenal doth N-O-T a US-Russian "joint agreement", on same to destroy same, maketh???
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